African-American » Libraries, Archives & Museums

Museum of African American History - Boston | Nantucket

Museum of African-American History

Detroit, Michigan.

National Museum of African American History & Culture - Smithsonian

Washington, D.C. Devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Park museum under construction in Cincinnati. Will contain records pertaining to all slavery-era persons. Collecting oral history on Underground Railroad sites and stories.

New Orleans African American Museum

New Orleans Public Library

New York Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.

New York Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division

Newberry Library - African-American Genealogy

Northwest African American Museum

Seattle, Washington

Parting Ways: The Museum of Afro-American & Cape Verdean History, Inc.

Pennsylvania State Archives

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Durham, North Carolina.

Richard B. Harrison Library - Mollie Huston Lee Collection

North Carolina.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

From the New York Public Library.

St. Louis County Library

Missouri.

The African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society

The African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society was established in 1970. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and make accessible historic documents, photographs, memorabilia, art, and artifacts pertaining to African American life, history and culture in Northeast Ohio. The collection includes manuscripts, photographs, microfilm, and newspaper collections. Museum artifacts are specific to the African American experience and cover a wide range of topics and categories of primary importance to the body of Black history.

The Black Fashion Museum

The Black Fashion Museum in Washington DC acknowledges the achievements and contributions of people from the African Diaspora to the apparel industry.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Detroit, Michigan

The Mitchell Collection of African American History

AfricanAmericanCollection.com is a website that displays one of the world's most comprehensive collections of African American History in the form of artifacts, books, letters, photographs, newspapers and more. The collection is absolutely amazing and is a great resource for people to view some of our nations most interesting moments in African American History.